Nick Hayden: 8 books

Five short stories of wonder, desire, and mystery from writer Nick Hayden (worksofnick.com), bound together by a sense that something exists beyond the natural that we haven’t quite found yet.The stories include: The Memory – It was a memory more precious than any other she had, and it...

Spanning genres from humor to science fiction to everyday life, this collection of flash fiction gives the reader snapshots into 50 different worlds. The stories here were originally published at www.worksofnick.com. Proceeds from book go toward the 7th/8th grade D.C. Trip fund for the school where Nick Hayden is a writing teacher.

I had willingly joined the legions that dove into the unknown. The romance of this world stirs my soul; I cannot live in peace in lands already known. But when I awoke in the sand on that beach, I had lost everything, my every comfort and my every necessity. I had spent the previous week in that dying...

Vienna is a small Midwestern town like a hundred others, but if you look closely, it has its stories. Collected here are five stories from Vienna, where ordinary people encounter the big questions of life. In "Transitions," a young man has to decide whether he's ready to grow up....

When scientists stumble across the perfectly preserved body of a Tyrannosaurus Rex, the first question is: How? But as one scientist spends his life studying the extraterrestrial crystals that caused its preservation, his questions become deeper, touching his deepest fears of life and death."House...

When they joined the Story Project, they shared only one thing: a desire to tell stories. They didn't know that they were the story. In the wake of Cassandra Talbot's sudden departure, Katrina takes charge in her no-nonsense manner, but the other members forget that she has issues of her own....

The Story Project is the dream of one man, but it is the lives of thirteen others brought together over the course of one year. Their journals chronicle loneliness, longing, and love as a house of strangers struggles to become a community. But it seems everyone hides a secret…. They came because...

Natalya is an American mom and wife with a Russian name working as a spy for the Brazilian government in a Midwest American town. Balancing dual identities is dangerous--and sometimes comical--especially when her husband hasn't a clue. Morana is on a suicide mission to transmit a bestial virus...